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I remember seeing part of some Animesque movie a few years back in the car of some people my parents knew. It was some movie that had Limited Animation, and from the looks of it, it seemed to be from before 2000.
The movie itself involved some woman getting shot down by what looked like gangsters in her bathroom(?), then she gets microscopic robots injected into her body to attack some villain who captures a few of them and makes them his/her slaves (I forget the villain's gender). I don't remember much else, and I didn't see the whole thing because I got bored part of the way through and the person driving the car offered to switch to Cars, an offer I took up (as pointless et cetera, I also saw some episodes of Whats New Scooby Doo before both). I don't know whether the movie I'm thinking of is Anime or Western Animation, but I do remember that the opening credits were text on colors that changed with cuts with each new credit until the thing actually began. If anyone knows what the fuck I'm talking about, you think you could jog my memory?
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Black and white B movie.
Honestly, I can't remember much of this movie, except that it was a sequel to something that started with "Night of".
The story is thus: a village's locale undertaker (or something) is believed to be evil, because he's an atheist. He hates all of humanity, except for children, and is very vocal about his distastes. I dimly recall that he saves a child in the beginning in the movie.
He wants a bride for some reason, and kidnaps several the locale beautiful women to test their candidacy, such as by letting a number of spiders into the room they're locked in to try to scare them. Only one woman passes all his tests (coincidentally, this woman was already smitten with him), so he kills the rest of the ladies. One of the women curses before she dies.
I can't really remember what happens next—a tangle of subplots to kill off the woman's potential suitors, trying to cover up any involvement the undertaker had in the womens' disappearences, etc.
He DOES find out that the woman who cursed him was pregnant when he offed her. As he loves children, he is completely mortified by what he's done.
Somehow he ends up in hell (because of the pregnant woman's curse or something?), which are the only scenes in the movie that are in color.
In the end he proclaims his new found love for Jesus and dies. Drowns, I think. I'm fairly certain that the local villagers found out about his murders at some point, too.
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A movie I saw about 3 alien guys from outer space becoming friends with this girl. A swiming pool was involved and it was very cheesy. I think one was red, one was blue and one was yellow. A little similar in plot to Encino Man.
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a man working for a company that helps men cheat on their wives and women cheat on their husbands take on a new intern or employee, over the course of a film he covers for a guy who ends up accidentally killing his mistress and the main character has to make sure he gets away with it while avoiding the mistresses angry boyfriend.
I don't remember the title for the film, think it was pretty recent, like within the last few years.
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Hello, maybe you can help me.
I'm looking for a short film I saw once but I don't remember its name. It was an action film in a modern setting. It had two rival gangs fighting each other with swords. Not samurai swords, more like european longswords. I think there was also something about two brothers, one of which had a best friend in the rival gang or something. In the end the one brother fights the other's best friend on a rooftop and they end up killing the brother that comes to stop them from killing each other.
Where else would you recommend I look? Where else can I ask?
Thanks!
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I remember a film or possibly a miniseries about an American family that winds up in the Bermuda triangle, which transports them to another dimension where it turns out Atlantis is located. I don't remember much of what actually happens on Atlantis, except for a haunting scene in which the father meets his dead brother in an abandoned building at night. The brother has gone blind and wears a rag across his eyes. At the end, the family is teleported back to Earth where they end up in Stonehenge, causing a local tourist guide to remark something along the lines of "Americans think they own the world".
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My friend was talking about an old Clint Eastwood film she saw but couldn't remember the name of. she described it as "ancient but surprisingly risque".
Clint Eastwood stars as a prisoner of war (not sure which war). At one point he's in a brothel (or maybe an orgy. her description is vague). He dies at the end of the film, from the gangrene of an amputated leg.
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These two are probably pretty popular, but I have no idea what the names are. I saw them both about ten years ago. Both live-action.
1. A boy who might not know that he's a robot... well, is, and for some reason someone's trying to get rid of robots. This one 'woman' android gets hot oil poured on her and her face melts away. For some reason it was reminiscent of ET for me, maybe it was made around the same time?
2. All I remember about this is that there was the bubble thing from the "Sorry" board game and I believe a little boy. Maybe the pieces on the game board moved by themselves? I believe it was scary; for me as a five year old, so not like horror, but something was a little creepy about it. I don't remember very clearly.
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Hey there, I have been looking for a certain film I saw years ago (safe to say nearly 10 years probably). I can picture exactly how it looked, so I recall it was likely a movie made in the 70s, given the style. It was about a disease or sickness that came over a town of people. Anyone infected apparently turned evil and power-hungry (not certain what powers or exact features it gave them) and made them overthrow the current mayor. They donned hoods and roamed around like members of a cult. More and more people succumbed to this.
Our hero was a Caucasian white guy who teamed up with another group of uninfected people, as well as a woman who rescued a young African-American boy from the "cult". One distinct scene near the end I remember was the guy invading a house, throwing a home-made grenade into a room, thinking a bad-guy was in it. It turns out the kid was tied-up in there, and the blast killed him (which they showed on-screen, not too gory, some blood from mouth, eyes open).
The ending of the movie was most memorable for me. At nighttime, our hero is running out of a building with a bottle of cleansed blood, into a courtyard. He defends himself well with some machine-gun, but one cultist shoots at him from a window. He stumbles back into a fountain, where he stands against the centerpiece through the night until daylight; the fountain becomes dyed with his lifeblood from his wound(s). The remaining party drives up to him in a jeep and comes to his aid, but he only kept himself alive long enough to guard the cured blood. He hands it to them in a fumble. It drops but doesn't break. They take the bottled blood with them, implying it will be used to try and cure or save other victims of the outbreak, leaving our hero dead in the courtyard; there is nothing they can do but try and prevent others from dying too.
This movie reminds me most of Monolith's Build engine video game FPS Blood, since it involves hooded cult members who wield machine guns and bombs, and blood can be used as a cure.
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There was this movie, in like this Jim Henson style. It had this kid who was really young, running away from bullies in like a warehouse, and than he was transported to this magical world, with the aforementioned creatures, and the plot revolved around these four people, the Jim Henson style folks, and there was this princess who in the end betrayed the kid, but the kid managed to turn her back to good. The memory is very hazy.
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Hey! I was wondering if anyone knew the title of this film. I saw it on TV a few years ago but I didn't memorize the name. I've been asking and googling around but haven't found the right thing yet, and it's starting to drive me nuts. D:
The plot goes roughly like this: There's this girl who writes letters to a prisoner (and he writes back) for some school thing. I don't remember whether the prisoner escaped or if he was released, but he runs away with the girl and ends up committing some crimes. They fall in love and I think the guy was impotent or something but they manage to do it at some point anyway.
Stuff happens and at the end the police kill the prisoner (who makes the girl tell the cops that he made her do it, even though she went with him because she wanted to). Also, not exactly sure about this, but I think the girl might've gotten pregnant?
I think it might be from somewhere around the 80's or 90's. Maybe.
So, thank you in advance (here's hoping someone knows this movie!) O:
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It was a riff on this So Bad, It's Good fanfilm by these kids who combined Star Trek, Doctor Who, and other sci-fi stuff and one kid had a cardboard box for a costume. i think it was on blip or viddler. Searching for retsupurae didn't help.
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So I have this movie stuck in my head... It's about this hospice nurse in New Orleans taking care of this old guy in this giant house. The old man's wife is crazy or something... I think the nurse is played by Kate Hudson... I can't remember... but the old woman traps the nurse and swaps their bodies or something. The old person is associated with this lawyer that shows up during the film. It's some-what a horror film. It's been bugging me for weeks and I can't remember it... Please help me! Thanks!
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A Western seen on TV in the mid 70s, probably filmed in the 50s or 60s. It was in color, I think. Only scene I recall is someone demonstrating his Improbable Aiming Skills by shooting at a rotating windmill. 5 shots pass between the blades but one hits with a "ping." Another guy admires his skills as he passed through 5 out of 6, but the shooter admits that he was actually aiming to hit the blades, and only got 1 out of 6.
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Some kind of comedy film set at a college, which I remember seeing on comedy central one afternoon years ago - I kind of remember it looking like it was made in the 80's, but I could be completely wrong. The only scene I remember is one where one of the main characters, who is apparently Jewish, gets harassed by a dumb Jerk Jock who pretends to be making friendly conversation while constantly emphasizing the word "kite" (i.e. "It sure looks like a nice day to fly a kite!"). Eventually a second, less dumb, Jerk Jock tells him that he doesn't even have his ethnic slurs right.
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Looking for a Japanese(I think) film I saw only as footage from a music video. It's the story of a guy who meets a woman, and it turns out the woman is a psycho who keeps her previous boyfriend paralyzed(she used needles to permanently damage his tendons, I believe) and mummified in her apartment. Pretty sure it ended badly.
So I caught this film on TCM last summer at like 1 in the morning: a man gradually falls in love with his ward, who was the daughter of his deceased friend. It's an older movie, made around the 30's or 40's, I'd say. I remember that there was some scandal because in real life, the actor and (younger) actress had had an affair, and everyone basically tut-tutted them while they made the film as an excuse to hook up. It was surprisingly good, but I freaking can't remember what it was called! It was never released on DVD, so i'm not sure how I'd ever see it again, but it's driving me nuts!